Moderator: sent to www-forms@w3.org and www-forms-editor@w3.org
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From: <AndrewWatt2001@aol.com>
To: <www-forms@w3.org>; <www-forms-editor@w3.org>; <xforms@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: [Moderator Action] What precisely is "instance data"?
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> It seems to me that the current WD is a little woolly about what is or
isn't
> instance data.
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> The definitions in the glossary states that instance data is an internal
tree
> representation. But Chapter 2.2, third bullet point refers to instance
data
> provided by the instance data in an attribute.
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> So which is the "true" position?
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> Is instance data only the internal tree representation as the Glossary
> states? Or is the serialised content of xforms:instance also instance
data?
> Is the "submitted data" also instance data or, since it is serialised it
is
> something else since it isn't an "internal tree representation".
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> I don't have problems describing the process but the terminology does need
to
> be tidied up, in my opinion.
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> Do we, for example, have "initialization data" provided by the content of
> xforms:instance, plus "form data" displayed on screen and modified by the
> user, plus "submitted data", the serialized data sent to the server plus
> "instance data", the in-memory tree structure? Or some other variant?
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> A side issue in 2.2. The text just before the second piece of example code
> refers to a "fuller version" of the "above example". It is, of course, a
> different example, with, for example, a <payment> element replacing a
<root>
> element.
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> Andrew Watt